fic: lifeblood

jade-clover:

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Haggar/Zarkon (Voltron), Haggar & Zarkon (Voltron)
Characters: Haggar (Voltron), Zarkon (Voltron)
Additional Tags: Quintessence, Magic, Metaphors
Series: Part 10 of star-hewn colossi
Summary:

Quintessence binds them and quintessence built them. An emperor, a high priestess, and that which flows at the heart of their empire.


Haggar Week, Day 3: Life Giver

Warning for descriptions of blood and needles in a medical context in scene viii (8).

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lotatolove:

Day 3 (October 30): AlchemistĀ IĀ High Priestess IĀ Ā Life GiverĀ Ā 

For @haggarweek

ā€œTell me what it meansā€ Ā 

ā€œI don’t understand princessā€ Ā 

ā€œWhy does Hagger call herself the high priestess? How did she gain that title? What is she capable of?ā€

The altean girl Allura and the garrison had saved paused and looked up at her and bluntly said, ā€œYou know as much as I know. I don’t understand why you would even ask. You have seen what she has doneā€

Allura, annoyed and fed up from hours of interrogating was about to walk away when the girl finally said, ā€œBut I see why they worship herā€

Allura stopped in her tracks, sat down and refused to look at her

The Altean girl took this as a sign and continued

ā€œI remember the day Hagger took me to her lair to show the progress of her work. The limits of quintessence. Her study and her life-long work. I never believed in it until I saw her perform alchemy herself. Ā 

I saw her as she powered all her energy into one of her captured galra empire soldiers and I watched her as she molded and built on him until nothing was left except an ore. A figment of what he used to be. Ā 

It was marvelous really. What power she wieldsā€ Ā 

Allura horrified, felt a shiver run down her spine.